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An exposition upon the thirteenth chapter of the Revelation by that reverend and eminent…
An exposition upon the thirteenth chapter of the Revelation by that reverend and eminent servant of the Lord, Mr. John Cotton ... ; taken from his mouth in short-writing, and some part of it corrected by himself soon after the preaching thereof ; and all of it since viewed over by a friend to him ... wherein some mistakes were amended, but nothing of the sense altered.
London: printed for Tim. Smart, 1656
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Upon the thirteenth Chapter of the REVELATION. › Part
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Reason is first taken from the experimental knowledge of every child of God effectually called,1 from the evident experience that he hath of the vanity of the Roman Catholic Church, and of the emptiness of calling on any to look from Church power, to heal or wound the conscience, as of themselves, further then they dispense the Ordinances of Christ: and then it is not they, but Christ in them, and for them to look for salvation in the communion of that Church, and in reconcilement to that Church; They are so experimentally beaten off from that, and possest of the contrary by their own experience, that you need not take them from adoring the Beast; for they see it is a Beast, and they shall as well utterly destroy their souls, as worship the Beast; and therefore the love of Christ constrains Bilney, and he draws Latimer, and Latimer draws others, till they have propagated the truth of God to all ages. But that, though it be one reason, yet it is the least.
The Reason is first taken from the experimentall knowledg of every child of God effectually called,1 from the evident experience that he hath of the vanity of the Roman Catholick Church, and of the emptinesse of calling on any to look from Church power, to heale or wound the conscience, as of themselves, further then they dispence the Ordinances of Christ: and then it is not they, but Christ in them, and for them to look for salvation in the communion of that Church, and in reconcilement to that Church; They are so experimentally beaten off from that, and possest of the contrary by their own experience, that you need not take them from adoring the Beast; for they see it is a Beast, and they shall as wel utterly destroy their souls, as worship the Beast; and therfore the love of Christ constrains Bilney, and he draws Latimer, and Latimer draws others, till they have propogated the truth of God to all ages. But that, though it be one reason, yet it is the least.
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